Not sure how that makes the feature bad; it will be on the user to turn them on if they want notifications or not
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do you mean that it will automatically turn it on or not?
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Hey - this is specific to game updates, right after you hit shut down or migrate we will make it such that players can auto-reconnect to the same server. Post the update matchmaking will resume as normal.
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Hi - the flexible join destination will be a developer option that you can enable and disable at the universe level. Completely agree if this was enforced by default it would be way too disruptive
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Hi - we should have been more clear about this. This is going to be a developer option and will not be enforced. Completely agree if this was enforced it would be very disruptive
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By same server, I’m assuming it’s not the same JobId because the server was shutdown. Do you mean that all the same players will be together after the update?
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What I mean is, if people want notifications from Roblox games, they would need to explicitly turn on push notification. Apps cannot automatically turn on certain settings (at least not on iOS)
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Putting continuous scrolling on the home page will honestly make the Discover page more pointless than ever before.
I really wish we could have the old home page back (greeting headline, continue sort, friends sort, favorites sort, statuses, latest blog posts), but of course, we don’t and they won’t.
Edit: We DO need continuous scrolling, just not on the home page, but rather when you hit “see all”.
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Favorites still exist, it’s just placed at the very bottom for some reason
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Uhhhh, you do realize that Roblox is most likely to ask the user before allowing any game to send notifications, right?
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All these sorts still exist (the friends playing sort removal has not hit my account yet) but were also part of the old home page layout prior to 2018 (I think the favorites sort was above friend activity back then).
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Hey there - just want to clarify that when it comes to notifications, spam protection and safety is our top priority. That said, notifications on Roblox always respect user preferences. Note that push notifications are just one notification channel - alongside the in-app notification stream and soon real-time in-app notifications.
As developers, you will need to get permissions from users to receive notifications from your experience, similar to how apps ask you to enable notifs when you first install them. After you configure notifications via the upcoming Notifications API, Roblox will help route your notifications to the right audience and channel at the right time.
We will share lots more details on the new Notifications API for devs, as well as new tooling for handling notification opt-ins. Stay tuned!
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Whatever change was made to discovery about 3 weeks ago has severely damaged our games while boosting our games in our genre without any clear reason as to why.
Our games CCU has pretty much been chopped in half despite none of our key metrics changing one bit (playtime, retention or monetization), while other games in our genre with much worse metrics are being promoted more then us.
This game here has much more players then us despite our playtime being 100% better then theirs (6 minutes vs our 12 minutes), how does this make sense?
If you could provide a reason why we in particular are being kneecapped while other games with worse statistics are being promoted more then us, that’d be great.
CC: @karunamat9ta if your able to answer
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Would we be able to gate these non-root place joins with things such as gamepass or badge ownership (or even datastores) to still allow for this behavior?
Would love to have players directly bypass a lobby / level select root place as long as they have the proper requirements to do so.
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Me personally im excited for this bro
Finally ill be able to understand Spanish ive always wanted to talk to one of my Spanish friends of which his English is not so good
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Any news about South America servers yet?
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You’d be better off learning Spanish. Auto localization in its current state is hot garbage. I used to correct those for developers for a living so I’ve seen the capabilities and limitations of it.
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The game discovery has been going down hill ever since you guys removed game genres and infinite scrolling
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Roblox has seriously stepped up they’re game with these updates, and are turning Roblox into a fully fledged game creation app.
I’m ridiculously excited to see what, when, and how these update’s are going to work.
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MY OPINION
This would be very good for the communities since there are several roblox rp groups separated in their languages and they don’t share almost any communication between them. Actually having an automatic way of translation to communicate with people outside our language would be very good.
This way we could bring players together more and increase collaborative work in the games with almost no communication errors.
it would be a great success.
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